Lépes Bálint haláltükre. Halálreprezentációk feltöltése a megtérés szolgálatában
The Eschatological Works of Bálint Lépes. The Use and Significance of Death Representations in the Service of Conversion

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present the subtle changes in the attitude towards death and its impacts on literature in the 16th and 17th centuries. It discusses the contributing factors to this change and their impact on the way death is presented and talked about, especially in the clerical discourse of the era. The first book of bishop Bálint Lépes that thematizes death and the Last Judgement is the perfect embodiment of all the conventional genres regarding death from the medieval era until the early modern period. Therefore, it can be considered worthy of an in-depth analysis. This paper tries to complete that task. It provides a profound study of the use and meanings of death representations reflecting the change in the attitude towards death.

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